Last week there was a feverish debate following Hillary Rodham Clinton’s rhetorical acrobatics over proposals to grant driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. Yet it’s the uniform backing of this policy by the leading Democratic presidential candidates that may prove foreboding in the general election. The rising discontent with illegal immigration has the potential to sever Democrats from the majority of voters – especially those in the working and middle class – as no issue has in decades.

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